Re: [computer-go] Just for fun

[Don Dailey <drd@xxxxxxx>]

> the undos are there in the game records, so it should be easy to take it 
> into account.
> it is enough to find games with only one '(' character to find the no-undo 
> games I believe...

Unfortunately, there is a big problem with this too.  People are more
likely to take back moves when they are losing than when they are
winning.  So if you throw out the games with takeback's, you are
probably throwing out the games where the computer is doing well.

You could of course consider any game with "undo" as a win for the
computer since undo is basically a cheat.  But I think some of the
players just like to experiment a bit, taking back moves just to see
what the computer will do if they play a certain way.

The only reliable method is to provide rated games.   Since we now have
the NNGS clone server set up for computer Go play,   we should start
looking into this.    Unfortunately,  the ratings would be based only
on computer/computer games,  but this is still a good thing.

- Don
 
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